250g

Slow dried and hand-cut egg-free spaghetti dyed with squid ink.

Whilst pasta is perceived as an almost exclusively Italian ingredient pasta is a basic ingredient for many Spanish dishes and pasta has been produced in Cataluña since the 17th century. In fact the whole of the Spanish Levant has strong cultural and historical links to Sourthern Italy (Sicily and the Mezzogiorno where one part of the Crown of Aragón).

The pasta can be cooked whole, or broken up to use in soups.

Ideal ingredients to go with it:  anchovies, black olive paste, roast peppers, parmesan